You are looking for one control and you do not know which tab it is on. Or you are getting an email you do not want. This guide covers both: how settings are organised, how to search them by name, what to do when the thing you are looking for is not there at all, and which notification emails you can switch off.

Open Settings from the sidebar. It lands you on the General tab.

Search instead of hunting

There are up to nineteen tabs. Scanning them is the slow way.

A search box sits above the tab list on every settings page. Type what you are after — “password”, “theme”, “auto refill” — and the tab list is replaced by matching settings. Each result names the setting, the tab it lives in, and, when the match was on a synonym rather than the title, which synonym matched. That last line matters: if you type “2FA” and get a result called “Encryption keys”, the matched-on line is what tells you it was not a mistake.

Ctrl/⌘ + K opens the same search in a dialog while you are anywhere under Settings. Outside Settings, that same shortcut is knowledge search — under Settings it means settings search.

Three things worth knowing about the matching:

It is case- and accent-insensitive, so searching “loschen” finds “Löschen”.
It matches titles first, then synonyms, then descriptions — so an exact title always outranks a description that happens to mention the word.
Your query goes into the address bar, so a settings search is a link you can send someone.

Search results also reach outside Settings. Plan, balance and top-up controls live on the Billing page rather than in Settings, and searching for them from the settings box takes you straight there.

What is on which tab

Tabs are grouped in the nav rail. On a narrow screen the rail collapses into a dropdown, with the same search box above it.

Group	Tabs	Look here for
(top, ungrouped)	General	Theme, and installing LumaVista as an app
Account	Account, Security, Privacy & data, Workspaces, Security policy	Your profile and organisation, email notification preferences, deleting your account; your password, encryption keys and enrolled devices; data export and import, your consent record, redaction strictness; workspaces you own or belong to; org-wide policy if you administer an organisation
Appearance	Personalization, Home	Interface language and report language, your persona, sidebar order, personal context; the greeting, anchor and doors on your home screen
Research & Chat	Research, Document conversion, Chat, Chief of Staff, Voice, Recordings, Background execution	Research defaults, how much a run may spend before asking, autonomous behaviour, per-strategy overrides, prompt customisation; the default conversion lane for uploaded documents; chat grounding sources, agent behaviour, reader preferences; and the four gated tabs below
Platform	Integrations, OSINT sources, MCP access, System	Connected external tools and MCP servers, OSINT credentials, your MCP access tokens, connection status and version

Notification preferences are on the Account tab, not a tab of their own. They are tied to your account and delivered to your account’s email address.

If you followed an old link to a Devices tab, you land on Security — the password, encryption and device blocks are all there now. Old links to the data-export, data-import and billing sections of Account also redirect themselves when you land.

Money is not in Settings

Credits, your plan, your balance, packs and auto-refill are not settings. They live on the Billing page, reachable from the user menu, and there is deliberately only that one billing surface. Settings search still finds those controls and takes you across to them.

Everything LumaVista charges for is charged in credits: see How Credits Work for what spends them, and Pricing for plans and pack sizes.

When the setting is not there

Some tabs and some individual blocks are feature-gated: they appear only where that feature is enabled on your deployment, and they are absent — not greyed out — when it is not. These are the ones that can be missing:

Tab or block	Present when
Chief of Staff	The Chief of Staff feature is enabled
Voice	Voice chat is enabled
Recordings	Speaker recognition is enabled — that is the switch that reveals the tab, even though the tab itself covers recording preferences generally
Background execution	Background execution is enabled
MCP access	The MCP server is enabled
OSINT sources	OSINT is deployed and reachable for your account
Workspaces	Your plan includes workspaces, or you already have one
Personal context (inside Personalization)	Personal context is enabled
Per-user MCP servers (inside Integrations)	Per-user MCP servers are enabled
Data-handling map and routing disclosure (inside Privacy & data)	Data-handling transparency is enabled
Auto-refill (on Billing)	Auto-refill is enabled

Settings search will not find a gated setting either. That is deliberate — a search result that lands on a page where the control does not exist is worse than no result. So “no results” can mean “not enabled here” as well as “no such setting”. If you searched carefully and found nothing, that is the likely reason.

Security policy behaves slightly differently: the tab is shown to everyone and explains itself with an empty state, but it only appears in search results if you actually administer an organisation.

If a capability you want is not enabled on your deployment, ask for it on the contact page.

Email notifications

Notification preferences live on the Account tab, in the Email notifications block. They govern email only — the in-app notification centre is a separate thing with its own behaviour.

Everything is on until you turn it off

There is no opt-in step. A preference you have never touched counts as enabled, so a user who has never opened this page receives mail. New categories added later also start on.

The preferences are per account, not per device, and they are yours: an organisation cannot set or lock them on your behalf.

What you can and cannot switch off

Category	Sent when	Can you switch it off
Report ready	Research you started finishes (or fails)	Yes
Budget	A run stopped because it hit its credit ceiling	Yes
Workflow failed	A workflow run fails	Yes
Billing	Your plan or your spendable credits change	No
Security	A device is enrolled or revoked, recovery is used, an operator revokes everything, or your password changes	No

Billing and security are rendered as informational rows rather than switches, because the sender ignores their preference entirely — a switch the backend refuses to honour would be a worse lie than no switch.

The reasoning is worth stating plainly:

Security mail is the one channel an attacker who already holds your session cannot silence. Enrolling a new device is exactly what someone does to gain lasting access to your encrypted data, so that notice always goes out. Every security email also says what to do if it was not you.
Billing mail reports a change to what you can spend, made by someone or something other than you. A balance that moves silently gets discovered by running out mid-run. It is not the receipt — the payment provider is the merchant of record and issues the receipt and invoice itself.

Unsubscribing from an email

Every switchable notification carries an unsubscribe link at the bottom and the one-click unsubscribe header your mail client uses for its own “unsubscribe” button. Both turn off that one category and nothing else, and the confirmation page links back to your settings so you can see the result.

Why you might get no mail at all

Your address is unverified. Report-ready, budget and workflow-failure mail goes only to an address someone has proven they control. If you never clicked the confirmation link after signing up, none of those arrive. Billing and security mail is exempt from this check for the same reason it is exempt from opt-out.
You were in the app. Report-ready notifications are batched: completions collect for a short window and then go out together, so three finished projects are one email rather than three. If you are using LumaVista when that batch is due, it is dropped rather than sent — you already saw the result.
Your account is not active. Suspended, disabled and mid-erasure accounts receive nothing.
You hit the rate limit. Notifications are limited per person and per category, so a flood of one kind can never crowd out another.

Navigating the Interface — the dashboard, sidebar and project panels
Installing LumaVista as an App — the install control on the General tab, and what installing changes
Setting Up Your Encryption — the devices, recovery and rotation controls on the Security tab
How Credits Work — what spends credits and where to watch the balance